Anjli Mohindra

At 34 years old, Anjli Mohindra has this physical status:

Anjli Mohindra (born 20 February 1990) is a British stage and screen actor best known for her role in The Sarah Jane Adventures as Rani Chandra in the BBC One series Bodyguard and as Josie Chancellor in the ITV series Dark Heart.

Tara Lohia, the original ghost story written by Mark Gatiss, appeared in 2018.

Early life

Mohindra was born in London on February 20, 1990. She grew up in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, after a four-year stint on a German military base, where she was the only ethnic minority student out of 2,000 students at an Armed Forces academy. According to Mohindra, her parents are both Hindu in terms of faith and Punjabi in terms of origin, language, and culture. Her father was born in Kenya when it was a British colony and served in the British Army for many years. Her mother came from the Punjab at 18, continued her education, and served as a court clerk, bank manager, secretary, pub owner, and English tutor.

She has a sister and a brother. Mohindra said in a 2018 interview about her personal style that she had been a tomboy growing up, often wearing her brother's hand-me-down clothes.

Mohindra attended Jesse Gray Primary School and West Bridgford School. She later trained at Nottingham's Central Junior Television Workshop.

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Career

Mohindra's television acting career began in 2005 with an episode of ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street, where she played Dev Alahan's daughter Shareen after being turned down for another, larger role. This appearance was soon followed by small, one-episode parts in the medical soap opera Doctors (2006), teen sitcom The Inbetweeners (2006), police procedural Law & Order: UK (2009), and medical drama Holby City (2010). She appeared in two episodes of the comedy drama Beaver Falls (2011).

On kids' television network CBBC, Rani Chandra played her first regular role as an aspiring journalist. She appeared in the second series as a replacement for Yasmin Paige, but she had to leave the series due to her inability to complete her GCSEs. Mohindra continued to act in the following three series until the show's very last episode, which premiered in October 2011. She appeared in 41 episodes, including those starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, and actors from the original Doctor Who series, including Nicholas Courtney and Katy Manning.

Mohindra appeared in an episode of the longest-running medical drama series in the country, Casualty. Soon after, she appeared in two episodes of The Missing (2014), a BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated kid-abduction drama starring Tchéky Karyo, and six episodes of Cucumber (2015), Russell T Davies's story about a middle-aged gay man from Manchester.

She appeared in four 15-minute episodes of BBC iPlayer's original romcom My Jihad (2014–2015), which was described as "a tender and funny love tale focusing on a young Muslim couple's unfolding friendship." Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore starred in Miss You Already (2015) and Bancroft (2017), followed by supporting roles in two well-known ITV shows, Paranoid (2016) and Bancroft (2017).

In Jed Mercurio's political thriller that gripped British television viewers in 2018, her highest profile was as the duplicitous Nadia Ali in the multi-BAFTA, Emmy, and Golden Globe-nominated Bodyguard. The series finale became the most watched BBC drama in ten years. Mohindra did not initially request the role until she found that her character had more depth than she expected. The same year, she appeared alongside Tom Riley in the ITV crime drama Dark Heart and guested in DC's Legends of Tomorrow as magical shapeshifter Charlie. In Mark Gatiss's adaptation of the classic Christmas ghost tale, The Dead Room (2018), displaying a natural talent for the macabre, Mohindra then appeared as an aspirational radio producer alongside Simon Callow.

She appeared in 11 theater productions from 2006 to 2019. Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2014) and Shahid Nadeem's Dara (2015), both professionally recorded and broadcast on National Theatre Live, as well as Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (2012) and Michael Frayn's Noises Off (2019).

Mohindra appeared in the ITV drama Wild Bill in 2019, starring Hollywood legend Rob Lowe. In the Doctor Who episode "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" (2020), she appeared as the Queen of the Skithra. In three Doctor Who audio drama spin-offs from Big Finish Productions, as well as in three episodes of Doctor Who: Redacted (2022), a ten-part podcast drama starring Jodie Whittaker, appeared on BBC Sounds in 2022. Fans of the classic Doctor Who series are also familiar with Mohindra's voice, as she has played several other characters in audio dramas involving the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Doctors over the years.

Mohindra has continued to grow as a writer, winning a spot on the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme in 2016. She made her writing debut with The People Under the Moon (2020), which was entirely made during lockout and starring Gwilym Lee as a medic who joins a dating service in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tiffany Docherty, the medical officer on board a nuclear submarine that is under scrutiny, appeared alongside Suranne Jones in Tom Edge's edge-of-the-seat thriller Vigil in 2021. The series soared to the BBC's most awaited new drama of the year. She appeared in the Netflix period spy drama Munich – The Edge of War as a British diplomatic secretary embroiled in the Munich conference in 1938 and then played a lead role in the Sky science fiction drama The Lazarus Project, which was described as a "gripping exploration of memory, destiny, and the boundaries of love" the following year. In the series, she played Archie, who recruits Paapa Essiedu's character George into a little-known organisation that has the ability to turn back time if the world is threatened by extinction.

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